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VI. SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN 



His Life and Early Work First Design for St Paul's 

 Cathedral The Work of Building Other Work, 

 including Greenwich and Hampton Court Contem- 

 porary Esteem His Influence on the Subsequent 

 Course of Architecture Domestic Work Attributed 

 to him - 141 



VII. SOME FURTHER WORK OF THE TIME OF 

 CHARLES II. 



Sir Balthazar Gerbier's "Counsel to Builders" "Captain 

 Wynne " and his Work Hamstead Marshall and Old 

 Buckingham House London after the Great Fire 

 City Halls and Churches Some Smaller Houses 

 Outside London 161 



VIII. GREAT HOUSES AND GARDENS OF THE 

 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 



Houses of the Nobility Grandeur of the Designs and 

 Lay Outs Boughton House, Dyrham Park, and 

 Chatsworth Nicholas Hawksmoor and his Work at 

 Easton Neston Lord Burlington and Sir John 

 Vanbrugh Castle Howard and Blenheim Formal 

 and Landscape Gardens 195 



IX. GEORGIAN HOUSES 



The Character of Eighteenth-Century Houses Campbell, 

 Gibbs, and other Designers Interior Design and 

 Decoration Typical Georgian Mansions : Hough ton 

 and Went worth Woodhouse The Woods of Bath 

 and Contemporary Town-Planning William Kent 

 and Holkham The Brothers Adam - 237 



X. SMALLER HOUSES, TOWN HOUSES, AND 



EXTERIOR FEATURES 



Charm of the Smaller Georgian House Streets and 

 Market Places of Country Towns Inns and Shops 

 London Houses of the Period Their Interior Plan- 

 ning Growth of the Suburbs in the Nineteenth 

 Century Exterior Features of Smaller Georgian 

 Houses : Chimneys, Gates, Doors, and Porches 

 Cupolas, Lantern Lights, Date-Stones, and Sundials 

 Garden Ornaments Ornamental Iron and Lead 

 Work - - 287 



